SOCA03Y3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Judith Butler, Consciousness Raising, Bell Hooks
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Not each cast is happy the position they"re in. Order to society and everyone has a place. Easy to move between and represents a lot of different societies. Born into the caste and can not move making it impossible to leave. Possible to move in our society, able to change classes. Different places is good and that"s how society works. Top caste exploiting people in the bottom caste. Upper classes benefit from lower classes and the lower class may not know about it. Limited resources that people can gain from. About interactions and how we create and maintain our social structures through the way we interact. Contemporary theory: western marxist, feminist, queer, post- structuralist, post- colonial, anti- racist. Cultural hegemony: the domination of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class who manipulate the culture of that society the beliefs, explanations, perceptions, values, and mores so that their imposed, ruling-class worldview becomes the accepted cultural norm.
